When designing Web pages for your company, what are the prime considerations that you would adopt? a

question 1:

When designing Web pages for your company, what are the prime considerations that you would adopt?

(40marks)

question 2:

What are the hardware and software requirements that your company have provide in order to design, publish and host a Web site for promoting the company products and services?

(60marks)

Anyone can spare a helping hand. its a 100 marks assignment. we%26#039;re allowed to get info/help online. Anyone can help me with those ques? Pretty much stucked.

When designing Web pages for your company, what are the prime considerations that you would adopt? and . . .?

I%26#039;ll give you some general guidelines just to help out.

Question 1:

What is your target market for viewing the sight and what does the site need to do? Is it just informational, will you be doing ordering, will it need to access a database to pull information?

You need to base your page size on a 28.8 modem connection and how long the page will take to load with a given size of the HTML / ASP / CFM file size. Assume that people don%26#039;t know how to navigate your website. Always remember KISS ( Keep It Simple Stupid ) it will save you headache in the long run. Stay away from lots of motion and flashing icons / pictures for a corporate website, it distracts attention and will usually take longer to load.

Question 2:

Again, depends on what you are using the site for. The requirements will change depending on the number of hits you expect to receive, what you are storing on that server and if you will need multiple computers.

A very complex system would be a web server with a min of 2 Gig ram and 100+ gig hard drive, a database server with roughly the same requirements, proxy server / firewall unless you are planning a different network structure where the web server is outside the DMZ of the corporate network. Also the design tools for building the site like a WYSIWYG editor Dreamweaver, VB Studio, SQL, exc.... and however much those licenses require you to spend.

Hope that helps!

When designing Web pages for your company, what are the prime considerations that you would adopt? and . . .?

Well, you%26#039;re online (I can tell that by your presence here), so I%26#039;d recommend hitting Google - time to start your reasearch!!!

Other Replys:answer 1:

I was told by someone that if users feel %26quot;navigationally challenged%26quot; when they land on a website...majority of them will leave your website within a minute, maybe less.

So, one of the primary factors that come into consideration is if your website has a good flow, so that users can navigate the site easily. This would mean good graphics, soothing to the eye (no contrasting, color styles)

Now also imagine yourself trying to visit a website that takes more time than you think it should to load. Will you be a regular on that site, probably not. It is important to use industry standards - CSS etc that helps to lower page load times.

What you have to keep in mind is your target audience. A considerable number of users across the world still dont have access to DSL or Cable internet. Would it make sense for them to access a site with Flash on it. Maybe have a flash version and a non-flash version of your site for users who have access to different bandwidth.

question 2:

Nowadays most data drives sites are developed using .NET or jsp. You could also use classic ASP, although that is slowly reducing in number. It will be upto your company to choose one development environment over the other. Once you know which environment to choose it should be fairly easy to understand what hardware requirements should be required to implement a website. If you have products to display, user accounts etc. I would say that you would also need a database software (SQL, DB2, Oracle etc.)